67.Which of the following about Ramanujan is NOT true according to the passage?

    A.He received some great honors after becoming seriously ill.

    B.He was world-famous before entering Cambridge.

    C.He got to know GH Hardy by writing letters.

    D.He began to publish many papers at the age of 22.

D

In the Chinese countryside, many art forms have been invented and liked by the folk (老百姓). The art of paper-cutting is one of them. Chinese women in the countryside, from teenage girls to white-haired grandmothers, can cut paper with scissors into all kinds of things, making paper-cutting of great interest.

Paper cuts are used to beautify walls, doors, roofs, lanterns and at weddings and funerals.  Because paper-cutting is a Chinese folk art, it has close links with traditional Chinese festivals and customs in the countryside. For example, window, door and lantern paper cuts are put up during the Spring Festival and the Lantern festival. During the Spring Festival, farmers usually stick white paper on the windows of their houses and then paste (粘贴) green and red paper cuts on them. Paper cuts are stuck to doors and roofs as well. On the evening of the Lantern festival, paper cuts are pasted onto lanterns to add to the festive atmosphere. To celebrate a new marriage, paper cuts are put on the furniture and many places in the bridal chamber (洞房). They are also pasted in rooms to cerebrate birthdays or in honor of the dead at funerals. Generally speaking, paper cuts are pasted in courtyards, rooms and on everyday goods to add to a cheerful atmosphere.

   There are some special paper cuts of traditional designs. These are used for embroidery (刺绣) on clothes, shoes, hats, pillows, bed curtains and door curtains. The cutter first cuts the outline of a pattern, and then sews it onto another piece of paper. The paper is then charred (熏黑) by a lamp or candle and then the sewn pattern outline is removed. Thus the original design is saved to provide the pattern for embroidery. In this way traditional patterns have been handed down from generation to generation.

63.What attitude does the author take in writing this passage?

     A.Positive       B.Negative       C.Objective       D.Critical

C

   Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of India’s mathematical geniuses(天才).He made wonderful contributions to the field of advanced mathematics. Even today, his mathematical theories and many unpublished notebooks filled with theorems(定理)are so difficult to understand that they continue to baffle many mathematicians.

   Ramanujan was born in his grandmother’s house in Erode, a small village near Chennai in Tamil Nadu on Dec. 22, 1887. While he was still a baby, his mother took him to Kumbakonam, near Chennai, where his father worked as a clerk in a cloth shop.

   He went to the Town High School there in January 1898 and was a very good student. But his real gift was in mathematics. He got a scholarship(奖学金)in his first year at the Government College in Kumbakonam, and he devoted more time to mathematics.

   In 1906, Ramanujan joined Pachaiyappa's College at Chennai. He passed the math test, but failed in all the other subjects. In the following years, he worked on developing his own ideas in mathematics. From July 1909, he published many papers and was becoming well-known in Chennai. In 1913, while he worked as a clerk in the Indian Mathematical Society, Ramanujan wrote to the Cambridge mathematician, GH Hardy, and told him about his work. Soon a regular relation developed between them. And in 1914 Ramanujan entered Trinity College, Cambridge.

There, Hardy and Ramanujan began working together.'

   In 1916, Ramanujan graduated from Cambridge. But a year later he fell seriously ill. Ramanujan was elected as a member of the Cambridge Philosophical Society in 1918 and a member of the Royal Society of London. This was a great honor for him. At that time his health seemed to improve. But when Ramanujan arrived in India on March 13 that year, he was dying. Despite medical treatment, he died in 1920.

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